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I hope they are doing it for security reasons. I seem to recall that if your default browser is set to Firefox, and you click the Windows Update link, that Wind

I hope they are doing it for security reasons. I seem to recall that if your default browser is set to Firefox, and you click the Windows Update link, that Windows Update won't run correctly because it depended on an ActiveX control.

rbanffy 16y ago
If a specific critical piece of the OS relies on defaults to select the only environment it can run on, then it's very poorly designed. Somehow, this doesn't surprise me one bit.
sid0 16y ago
There is no such thing as a "Windows Update link" in modern Windows.